Junot Diaz, who I interviewed in the fall following the publication of his wonderful novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the novel.
Diaz, from the Dominican, grew up in Old Bridge and attended Rutgers.
He told The Star-Ledger that he was in “utter disbelief.”
“The applause for these things fade quickly, but if anything lasting comes of it I hope it will encouarge every other poor young kid from a similar marginalized background in New Jersey,” Diaz said.
Here is what I wrote about the novel in September (which contains an old link to our story from Time Off, written prior to his September reading in East Brunswick).
South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press
The Blog of South Brunswick
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Hank Kalet 